". . . buying T206s at antique stores for 35 cents apiece." What's YOUR cool story?

[Yoda]

But you didn't kill yourself about it. Well done.

[jingram058]

Bought an Official Harridge Reach American League baseball signed by Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Ty Cobb (authenticated by Harvey Brandwein) for $500 in 1988 at Chanute AFB, Illinois. According to Mr. Brandwein, the ball was probably signed in 1934. Yes, you could buy cards and memorabilia very, very cheap. But at the time, $500 clams seemed like a crazy amount of money to shell out for a baseball signed by anyone.

[G1911]

I'm a 90's baby, so I missed out on a lot of the bargains that are only bargains in retrospect. I've had some luck in 'real time bargains', where I got a card for much less than it's value.

Got a 52 Bowman Mays, missing a small piece of a corner but nice looking, for around $50 a few years ago. That was a steal even then. Found a T206 Young (hand showing) in an antique shop on the east coast on a work trip, paid $50 and traded it quickly. Would love the other Young pitching, not a big fan of the image on the no glove card.

And then I got this, my biggest bargain by a long shot, a couple weeks ago for $100 after Uncle Sam got his cut. This is the boxing T card equivalent of finding 8 pre-production T206 Wagner's on a sheet. Which mean's its worth way less than 1% of those Wagners, but it's a heck of a bargain.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by G1911

I'm a 90's baby, so I missed out on a lot of the bargains that are only bargains in retrospect. I've had some luck in 'real time bargains', where I got a card for much less than it's value.

Got a 52 Bowman Mays, missing a small piece of a corner but nice looking, for around $50 a few years ago. That was a steal even then. Found a T206 Young (hand showing) in an antique shop on the east coast on a work trip, paid $50 and traded it quickly. Would love the other Young pitching, not a big fan of the image on the no glove card.

And then I got this, my biggest bargain by a long shot, a couple weeks ago for $100 after Uncle Sam got his cut. This is the boxing T card equivalent of finding 8 pre-production T206 Wagner's on a sheet. Which mean's its worth way less than 1% of those Wagners, but it's a heck of a bargain.

What in the ever-loving F(&@^)#&^@!!! You just bought sheets of T220 silvers for $100??? Everyone else loses. Forever.

EDIT: Please share any story and tons of pics. My jaw is on the floor.

[Leon]

Somewhere around 18 yrs ago I had a find I called The Trucker Boy Find....nothing too crazy except, well.,.. Here it is in a thread with some other stories, from only 15 yrs ago.

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...ht=trucker+boy
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[milkit1]

Not the greatest story ever but I remember in 1988 answering an ad in SCD selling commons for $4. I requested and got a Chick Gandil which I was super excited about as the movie Eight Men Out had just come out.

[ocjack]

In the 1960's, I was working part-time on weekends at a bank in downtown L.A. One lunch, I walked by an old book store that had a huge picture window and 4 rubber-banded stacks of '51/'52 Bowmans in the window as decoration. They were marked at 25 cents each. I told the owner I wanted to buy the cards and he said he wasn't climbing into the window for 25 cents. I told him I wanted all four stacks and gave him $1.

There must have been about 50 cards in each stack so I walked out with probably 200 of them for $1.

It'll never happen again.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

What in the ever-loving F(&@^)#&^@!!! You just bought sheets of T220 silvers for $100??? Everyone else loses. Forever.

EDIT: Please share any story and tons of pics. My jaw is on the floor.

Made a separate thread over on the boxing sub with the details for discussion, etc. I'm pretty excited still

[sb1]

Bought a 180 card T206 lot out of a Broadway Rick auction, probably 20 years ago. Very little details in the SCD ad for the auction, mentioned a few HOFers and others. I called for details, and all they wanted to tell me how great a deal it was.....I kept inquiring as to condition, etc, but again they were more interested in hard selling the lot. I already knew I was going to bid on it, it wasn't really necessary. I opened and won the lot for the $1,800 opener. $10 a card, which was a pretty standard price back then. Binders of T206's with HOFer and usually a few E card mixed in were just sold by the card count x's X, which was often $10-12 a card.

When I received it I was pleasantly surprised with a Cobb BL 460, Brown Lenox Chase and several more backs of note. Of course all were sold well before the current boom.

[pete zouras]

$5 is actual price paid. Had authenticity confirmed by net54er of old Kevin Saucier. Contacted by dealer in antique mall responding to my craigslist paying top dollar for vintage baseball cards ad.

[chriskim]

Originally Posted by sb1

Bought a 180 card T206 lot out of a Broadway Rick auction, probably 20 years ago. Very little details in the SCD ad for the auction, mentioned a few HOFers and others. I called for details, and all they wanted to tell me how great a deal it was.....I kept inquiring as to condition, etc, but again they were more interested in hard selling the lot. I already knew I was going to bid on it, it wasn't really necessary. I opened and won the lot for the $1,800 opener. $10 a card, which was a pretty standard price back then. Binders of T206's with HOFer and usually a few E card mixed in were just sold by the card count x's X, which was often $10-12 a card.

When I received it I was pleasantly surprised with a Cobb BL 460, Brown Lenox Chase and several more backs of note. Of course all were sold well before the current boom.

Wow.. great story! so you were the one who discovered the first Cobb BL460!